It should not be a surprise that, as the National Association for Law Placement (NALP) reported in a report this past January, “women, people of color, and LGBTQ individuals remain markedly underrepresented at the partnership ranks.” Even more, although NALP found that law firms were making progress, “that progress has been excruciatingly slow and nowhere near matches the increases seen in the summer associate and associate ranks.”

In 2021, to address this lag, the Philadelphia Diversity Law Group launched the PDLG Advocate Protégé Program. The program was created to help increase the number of diverse lawyers joining the partnership ranks at Philadelphia law firms by giving participating mid- to senior-level diverse law firm associates (the ‘protégés’) guidance on what it means and takes to become a partner, providing tips, tools and practical exercises. It was anticipated that by the end of the program, the protégés would find the process toward becoming, and prospect of being, a partner less daunting and opaque, and as a result they would be more likely to join their firm’s partnership ranks.

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